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JOYCE, James Augustine Aloysius (1882-1941). Ulysses . Paris: Maurice Darantière for Shakespeare and Company, 1922. 8° (237 x 183mm). Printed music in the text. (Some light browning, a few short marginal tears, pre- and postliminary blank leaves [*]1-2 and [47]1-2 either not issued or removed by binder [see note], [**]1-2 detached, leaves [**]1-4 and 46/5-8 with marginal tears, some neatly reinforced, those on [**]2 affecting first letter of title.) Contemporary blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine, some gatherings unopened (lightly marked, upper hinge split), contained in a later blue cloth chemise, morocco-backed slipcase lettered in gilt on the spine (slipcase lightly rubbed at extremities). [ With :] Ezra Weston Loomis POUND. Typed letter signed ('E.P.') to Kate Buss, 70bis, N.D. des Champs, 1 Hephaistos [i.e. March] AN II [i.e. 1923], 1 page, 4°, tipped onto flyleaf. [ And :] Sylvia BEACH. Autograph letter signed ('Sylvia Beach') to Kate Buss, 12 rue de l'Odéon, Paris, 24 March 1923, on paper with printed heading of Shakespeare and Company, 2 pages, 4°, tipped onto verso of half-title. Provenance : Kate Buss (1884-after 1923, presentation inscription 'To , Kate Buss , James Joyce , Paris , 11 May 1922' on half-title; ownership inscription on upper pastedown; pencilled annotations to Pound's letter, endleaves and leaf [**]3r)--Thomas Edward Hanley (1893-1969, cf. Slocum and Cahoon, citing this copy). FIRST EDITION, UNNUMBERED PRESS COPY. INSCRIBED BY JOYCE TO THE AMERICAN AUTHOR AND CRITIC KATE BUSS AND WITH INSERTED LETTERS FROM POUND AND BEACH ABOUT BUSS'S REVIEW OF THE WORK, POUND'S PUNNING ON THE SUBSTITUTION OF 'JOSEPH' FOR 'JAMES' AND BEACH'S DISCUSSING JOYCE'S SIGHT PROBLEMS. Kate Buss was an American author and critic, who lived in Paris, and moved in the city's literary circles, counting luminaries such as Gertrude Stein and Ezra Pound amongst her friends (indeed, for some time she lived in the same house as the Joyces in the rue de l'Université). Stein recalled her thus at this period: 'Kate Buss brought lots of people to [Stein's] house. She brought Djuna Barnes and Mina Loy and they wanted to bring James Joyce, but they didn't' ( The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (London: 1933), pp.215-216). The publication of Ulysses on Joyce's birthday (2 February 1922) was an event amplified by the paucity of copies available for sale; as Joyce anxiously wrote to Harriet Shaw Weaver on 8 February, 'Since the announcement that the book was out the shop [i.e. Shakespeare and Company] has been in a state of siege--buyers driving up two or three times a day and no copies to give them' (J. Joyce Selected Letters ed. R. Ellmann (London: 1975) I, p.288). The acquisition of a copy was exacerbated by the cost of 150 francs, as Buss recorded in her review of Ulysses (a copy of which is pasted onto the flyleaf of this volume): 'If one couldn't afford a copy one borrowed. Ezra Pound was good enough to borrow Mr. Joyce's unsewed copy for my reading and reviewing'. Buss's review of the book from Joyce's copy was written in April 1922 (according to a note in her hand on the flyleaf of the present volume), and she presumably then returned the volume to its author and owner, who in turn inscribed this copy to Kate Buss the month after she had borrowed his, in gratitude for her early and enthusiastic review, which was eventually published in The Boston Evening Transcript on 10 October 1922 (cf. R.H. Deming A Bibliography of James Joyce Studies (Boston, MA: 1977), 2081). Both Ezra Pound and Sylvia Beach wrote to Buss about her review, and their letters have been tipped into the volume by Buss, and, in the case of Pound's, annotated by her. Pound's letter discusses the arrivals past and pending of the writers (and friends of Joyce) Padraic Colum and Ford Maddox Ford in Paris, and also The Criterion : '[T.S.] Eliot's new quarterly "The Criterion" very grave and estimable, and antique. Sh[oul]d. establish itself in England and prob